It is backed by The Economist what is the Czech for "blowing your own trumpet"?—and fun it is, full of puns and *palindromes, dialects, jargon, simplicity and pomp, cliches, metaphors, oddities, inventions (Bernard Shaw's famous spelling of "fish"—ghoti, with gh as in cough, o as in women and ti as in -tion is only just beyond the bounds of the possible).
In an era of global warming, that is not to be sniffed at.*Fish: gh as in tough, o as in women, ti as in nation (courtesy of GB Shaw).
Chips: tch as in match, o as in women, gh as in hiccough.
Silent letters like the gh in night are a remnant of an earlier pronunciation (a bit like the German nicht).
It results primarily from damage to the hypothalamus or to the pituitary gland during fetal development (congenital GH deficiency) or following birth (acquired GH deficiency).
In addition, short stature and GH deficiency are often found in children diagnosed with psychosocial dwarfism, which results from severe emotional deprivation.
The status of the velar stops k, g, and gh has likewise been questioned.
(A stop is a consonant made with complete momentary stoppage of the breath stream some place in the vocal tract; voiced stops are those produced with the vocal cords vibrating, such as b, d, g. An aspirated sound is accompanied by a puff of breath, often written as an h, as in bh, dh, gh; an unaspirated consonant lacks this accompanying puff of breath).
As is done in Cretan and Old Athenian, they add gh to the suffix -ev- that occurs at the end of many verb stems (dhulévgho 'I work,' standard dhulévo).
Sonants included the trilled r /ṛ/ and single-flap r, a velarized l /ł/ (which developed into the velar fricative gh /γ / in all dialects), l /l/, and the nasals m /m/ and n /n/.
The exact pronunciation of the voiced aspirates is somewhat uncertain; they were probably similar to the sounds transcribed bh, dh, and gh in Hindi.
